TWO WORKS ON HERBERT SPENCER.
APHORISMS FROM THE WRITINGS OF HERBERT SPENCER. Selected by Julia Raymond Gingell. Second Edition. With a Photogravure Portrait of Herbert Spencer. Crown 8 vo, 3s.
The Times says:— "The selections... are many of them very pithy and suggestive."
The St. James's Gazette says:—"The volume is full of information.... A useful and adequate little volume."
The Globe says:—"A volume which ought to appeal successfully to a large class."
Nature says:—"The selections are well arranged and to the point, and illustrate the scope of the synthetic philosophy."
The Star says:—"The passages are chosen with judgment. They are evenly characteristic, fair to the author, and pregnant with suggestiveness."
The Scotsman says:—"The choice which has been made is representative of all departments of the thinker's activity.... The book is done admirably, and with uncommon intelligence of the works from which it is drawn."
The Birmingham Post says:—"The selections are so well chosen, and are so pregnant with characteristic thought, that many readers who do not know Sir. Spencer's works will be led to study in its completeness the philosophy of one of the most fearless, original, and profound English thinkers and teachers. We strongly recommend the volume."
The Midland Counties Herald says:—"A most interesting and useful book."
Watts' Literary Guide says:—"An attractive little work."
The Herts Advertiser says:—"We advise all earnest, thoughtful readers to acquire Miss Gingell's volume, if only to gain an insight into the wonderful clearness and precision with which the greatest philosopher of the Victorian Era expresses his opinions upon some of the most abstruse social questions of the day."
The Saturday Review says:—"Much care and consideration has been expended upon the volume .... has been executed with much discernment."
The Birmingham Gazette says:—'"This little volume should be fruitful, for it contains nothing but seeds of wisdom that sink into the mind and there take root."
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HERBERT SPENCER (An Introduction to). With a Biographical Sketch by Professor W.H. Hudson. Crown 8vo, 5s.
* * * In this volume an attempt is made to meet a very healthy popular demand on the part of students of broad outlook but limited leisure, to know more of the personality and philosophical writings of Herbert Spencer, by furnishing a sort of outline map for the student to follow, noting the principal natural features likely to be encountered, thus making the course of study easier and lighter, and better equipping the student to grapple with Mr. Spencer's arguments.
The Daily News says:—"A book of a kind for which there has long been a demand."
The Scotsman says:—"A real want is well met by Mr. Hudson's modest but masterly little volume.... It is clear, intelligible, and adequate."
The Glasgow Herald says:—"This is an extremely clear and very readable account of the main principles of the Spencerian philosophy."
The Manchester Guardian says:—"This pleasantly written little book.... The biographical sketch is really interesting and valuable.... Mr. Hudson is a clear expositor."
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